Flogging In Prisons

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Flogging is a cruel method of punishment. Not only does flogging leave abiding scars on the surface of the skin, but lasting scars to one’s mentality. After sixteen or more swings to the exterior of the dermis, one’s body starts collapsing. Death is one of the merciless results from this corporal punishment. No form of punishment should leave both physical or mental damage to one. Ask this simple question: Who are you to decided someone’s faith? The answer is limitless; no one is entitled to decide the fate of a perpetrator. Flogging is an inadequate method to punish wrongdoers of their crime. Prisons are a more reliable way to establish a cognitive development. In order for criminals to understand their actions, they must be put through a system rather than inflicting cruel and unusual punishment.
There are a number of mindsets on the establishments of prisons. Prisons are
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Being put into prisons allow criminals to rehabilitate themselves from unpredictable crimes. Physical punishment is associated with an increase of mood disorders, anxiety, and drug dependence. If a child or teenager stole a good or committed a crime, flogging would be presented upon them; thus increasing the chances of attributing one of the many disorders. According to a study conducted by The McLean Hospital Institutional Review Board, children exposed to Harsh Corporal Punishment (HCP) during youth can have deleterious effects on brain development.
Corporal punishments are physical forces towards a child in order to control as well as correct rebellious behavior. A history of corporal punishment is associated with having negative consequences on those exposed to it. Psychologist Elizabeth Thompson of the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University found that corporal punishment increased child
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